Foiled plot to kill Tony Saca

El Salvador's president revealed today that police had foiled an alleged plot to kill him, as reported in Reuters:

SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) - Salvadoran President Tony Saca said on Friday police had uncovered a plan to assassinate him by firing a rocket at his helicopter, and linked it to his crackdown on organized crime and drug gangs.

Saca said the plot had been masterminded by George Nayes, a Cuban-American deported last month to the United States, which wants to investigate his possible links to Colombian drug traffickers. Police backed up Saca's claim...

Nayes is apparently a US citizen. An Internet search shows that Nayes was interviewed by El Diario de Hoy in November 2004 in connection with Nayes' efforts to recruit Salvadoran ex-soldiers to work in Iraq on behalf of an unnamed company.

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Anonymous said…

This is just propaganda... ARENA has ample ties with the Cuban Mafia in Miami. Saca is a "friend" of Posada Carriles, and the ARENA party is involved with money laundering drug money. Cristiani and Sol when they were owners of the financial institutions made ample use of the system to launder cash. Flores has stolen cash as well... Domenech, Perla, Hill, all of them are part of the money laundering mafia that rules the country. It is hard to believe that one of ARENA's associates from the Cuban Mafia wanted to murder the "President". In my opinion, this is all just a show raised by the Silva scandal. Saca wants to use his PR powers to make him look like a paladin against the organized crime (if he was, there would be no ARENA, if he actually remain true to his word that ARENA would not be sanctuary of the mafia). I also believe that Silva is a small fish that was sacrificed, because probably the DEA told Saca that El Salvador is rife with corruption, that in order to receive the Millenium Account, they should do "something" about it. And so they did, sacrificed a small fish. Now let us see if he goes for the pigs (ARENA, and PCN). Let us say if he has an independant party investigate la Corte de Cuentas and exhumate the mass grave buried there...

By the way, I am sure that the purpose of contracting the ex-soldiers was for death squads in Iraq... I mean, there are multiple members of the Cuban Mafia that received CIA training in an attempt to carry on more Bay of Pigs invasions and terrorists attacks against Castro. So I believe that this "security company" is just a front. Those ex-soldiers could just as well act as the some Kaibales currently are(Guatemalan ex-soldiers now turned drug mafia bodyguards/hitmen).

Do you have any shred of proof to back uo any of these caims? CONSPIRACY, give me a break. FMLN are the ones with the propagada that encourages violence to disrupt any progress the president may have in mind. I am not a Saca supporter, nor did I vote for him, but come on propaganda. Your biased opinion has definitely clouded yo judgement. Your allegations are just plain rediculous.

Cristiani did profit from from his presidency, but technically he did not steal money. He just used the system to his favor just like american senators and congressman do when they accept expensive gifts from lobbyists.

Why would Domenech need to launder money? Are you just stupid or what? Do you not know that he is a multimillionaire, not just form the profits of operating Despensa de Don Juan, but also from the sale of the chain to the Paiz's? Or you just assume that he is responsible for illicit actions because he is a rich, successful businessman, and it pisses you off that he is rich and you are not?

Get real, get educated, and stop spreading all this bull you know nothing about.

SALVADOR * Juan Jose Domenech, founder and leader of the Republican Nationalist Alliance and possible candidate for the 1999 presidency, has resigned in light of his impending trial on drug trafficking charges. domenech says he is the victim of an international conspiracy.(EL PAIS, 09/09

"In a stunning move that confirms the depth of the division withinEl Salvador's right wing, the embattled president of the rulingARENA party, Juan Jose Domenech, resigned on September 7.Domenech is facing accusations of corruption, including taxevasion and trading in stolen cars, as well as charges byGuatemalan authorities of drug trafficking and money laundering."

"The so-called Strategic Command of National Liberation -- whichclaims to represent ninety percent of the army -- threatened totopple the government of Calderon Sol if he fails to act againstthese criminals by October 15.

It identified banks belonging to the Cristiani and Calderonfamilies as among those implicated in laundering drug money.

The first public indications of disunity within the right surfacedin the spring, with the explosion of two bombs targeting the homeand a business of former President Alfredo Cristiani. Theseattacks were likely intended to discourage his politicalaspirations. He had been contemplating another run for thepresidency in 1999."

By the way, what about the incident of Francisco Flores being detained a couple of years ago in a Miami airport, carrying a briefcase with 25,000 dollars which he conviniently failed to report? What was the result? Because he was a friend of Bush, and a member of a pro-USA party, he was discretely captured, but because the authorities were "incapable of determing the origin of the 25 thousand dollars", he was released.

ARENA is infested with corruption. Just taking notice of the parties origins cements this. A party made by the oligarchy-business industry, who were death squad members and sponsors. The same people that payed the military/dictators to execute rural citizens to get their lands and expand their haciendas. The same group that has controlled the government and has due to privatizacion of every business created a series of monopolies, have benefitted only the same small group, has established burocracies to slow down the creation of new busiesses, and therefore protect their own. Have controlled the financial institution of the country and have used it to launder money. Doesn't actively pursue "ex-members" like Perla or Hill who were proven engaging on corruption...

Please, ARENA is infested with corruption. They cover it up perfectly thanks to their control of the Corte de Cuentas thanks to their mafia crony the PCN.

People like you make it appear as if people like Cristiani, Sol, Poma, actually did something to get rich, other than establishing monopolies, engaging on corrupt activities... What they did, being the immigrant residents that they are, is take advantage of the close and dark salvadoran society. They came from the old world with whatever cash they had, and where immediatly welcomed by the creole community, who has always been the ruling elite of Latin America. They then proceeded to either work on the export business, or purchase small haciendas. All of this while purchasing the dictators/governments to rule in their benefit. People like me are not envious of scum like them, that after 185 years of "independance", El Salvador is comparable to some African country ( a still exploited and conflicted region), all due to their small minds, ill-administrative abilities, their wrong management of the country. They are no Japanese, no Singaporese, no businessmen that through intense competition determine who lands on top. Businessmen, that have actually contributed with the developement of their respective nations into what they currently are. Hell, it is widely known the story of the 14 ruling families of El Salvador, the folks who prevented progress in the country in favor of benefitting from cheap labor, and who determined the direction of our nation. Small minds like them, and their greed is what has made El Salvador into a heavily endebted nation, where a vast number of people depend on remittances to survive, or end up migrating. It is actually pathetic that this country alone can barely sustain itself, why? Because our "leaders" never bet on investing on the people of the country, on educating them, on preparing them... Unlike Cuba, who has some of the most capacitated and healthy people of Latin America, and their biomedical expertise is world-renown. A country that was a thriving country during the times the USSR existed, but after its collapse has been isolated by the world thanks to the US embargo, but still manages to retain the bulk of Castro's accomplishments. So tell me, what has El Salvador done to make the population advance? Nothing more than road-buidling. In 17 years of power, those mafiosos in ARENA could've engaged on a continious alfabetism project, on reactivating the agriculture, but they are slow a-holes, and only up till now Saca summons a plan to "eliminate alfabetism in 2010?"- Ridiculous. ARENA are inept businessmen, as they are inept leaders. If in this country there really were free trade, any foreign company would be able to come here, offer any wage they want, and bury those pathetic oligopolists... But then again, what type of company other than those requiring cheap labor do ever come here? Last time I checked, it was Costa Rica the country that has Intel, definately not us. We thanks to our foolish leaders only thrive in the informal sector.

So don't come with me being envious. I am enraged at how pathetically managed this country has been. 185 of independance, that is more than 80 years of independance than Singapore, but we haven't acheived even 10% of what they have done: Time well used, on investing on the people's nation.

Really... Those so called businessmen, polititians (ARENA-PCN) should be ashamed of not taking advantage to the massive push the left gave the country to make the transition from totalitarism to "democracy". But what can you expect? Old dog can't learn new tricks.

Btw, cut the horse-crap. FMLN or no FMLN, people would continue protesting against the "monopolistic" governments that we have. If anyone has fostered an unstable country filled with crime, impunity, corruption, is ARENA's incompetence. Ha, just the fact that ex-soldiers, ex-Guardia Nacional, ex-patrulleros, turned into the MS-13. That tells you of the legacy of violence and ineptitude that the retrograde ways of governance have given to the nation. And instead of fighting crime from its roots, both white collar and blue collar, by uncovering all the corruption and detaining the criminals, by creating new jobs, proper housing, giving better payed jobs, what ARENA keeps doing is pretending there is nothing wrong with the country, or rather said they are more busy with privatizing everything than tackling the nations problems.

Truth of the matter is that the DEA and the Interpol know full well of the shoddy doings of the ARENA mafia, the Cuban Mafia (CIA trained to carry on terrorist attacks against Cuba), but they do not do anything against them because: they are pawns of USA corrupt leaders, they are pro-USA people, so it is to USA's interest not to blemish said people's reputations, or they'd lose influence in the region. That is why DEA and Interpol don't actively pursue them. As usual, what could be expected of meddling USA, terrorist sanctuary, terrorist state, who keeps on intervening in the democratic processes of different nations to support pro-USA mafias retaining power (from financing and training death squads, dictators along with the Salvadoran mafia in Miami and the corrupt oligarchs, to terrorizing a population into voting in favor of the fraudulent/corrupt ARENA party). The 2004 elections were stolen. Handal was the real victor.

By the way, want to see another case of corruption involving prominent Salvadoran families?

Carmen Elena Simán Dada de Jaar arrested for laundering money with shell companies in Colombia for a cartel.

So, I ask YOU... why do "rich" people engage on illegal actions? Obviously to get richer. The greedy murderers that they are. Also, like Silva Pereira, one should also be able investigate how said people got rich in the first place. ;)

Regarding George what his name... Did anyone see in LPG, that he was one of the people that contributed along with Saca the making of Plaza Palestina?

I did a small "research" on the guy, and it appears he is part of a group that has been acting in whole Latin America, hiring ex-combatants as mercenaries (security personel, escorts, etc.). The goal was apparently contracting 1 million mercenaries, of all Latin America, Guatemala-Colombia.

"Forbes magazine reports that the US Government “pays private firms between $500 and $1,500 a day for the experienced military personnel they supply in Iraq. That works out to mercenaries who often earn between $150,000 and $250,000 a year.”

Not so for the vast majority of mercenaries recruited from Latin America. And while US mercenaries are rotated in and out of Iraq on 90-day tours, the Latin Americans are committed to remaining in the country for a year, without any relief."

Even though many of those mercenaries were part of the same forces that committed genocide on the different Latin American nations, I actually pity them for being exploited. Not only this, but because their deaths come cheap, I hope they don't leave any orphans, but I guess that is the price to pay when dealing with people that after the war were left leading crappy jobs. They, just like the immigrants are willing to dive into danger to get some food in the table.